It sure do feel like that, huh?
This is the agents in the matrix metaphor -- any normal sensible person you meet, until and unless they've been liberated from the reductive dominant culture, is a potentially violent defender of said culture when exposed to challenging ideas.
This is the agents in the matrix metaphor -- any normal sensible person you meet, until and unless they've been liberated from the reductive dominant culture, is a potentially violent defender of said culture when exposed to challenging ideas.
https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1470086025368199178
That "agents" thing resonates hard from an ND perspective, too. I'm sure other oppressed demographics have their own variations, I can imagine racism is similar, sexism, etc.
You can't know someone's commitment to violent defense of dominant taxonomy until it's been tested.
You can't know someone's commitment to violent defense of dominant taxonomy until it's been tested.
But queerness and e.g. autism are more similar than either is to race, for instance, because these are purely internal truths.
Queerness is about having a different subjective experience than people expect.
(Which is the definition of neurodivergence. coda.io/@mykola-biloko…)
Queerness is about having a different subjective experience than people expect.
(Which is the definition of neurodivergence. coda.io/@mykola-biloko…)
So while an "agent" in the race category might hold an opinion like "this person's skin color makes them less than me", for instance, an "agent" in both the queer category AND in the neurodivergent category is defined more as "this person is being human incorrectly."
Different.
Different.
(and of course intersectional logic applies, right, so a queer black autistic is going to be perceived as both of these negative things at once by a lot of people they meet, etc.)
The way we talk about them now, to be autistic is to have one kind of "wrong" subjective experience, to be ADHD is to have a different kind, to be gay is to have a different kind, to be trans is to have a different kind, etc.
Is that so helpful? Is "Queer" just it?
Is that so helpful? Is "Queer" just it?
The way we make society safe for everyone is by Queering it. To Queer it is to recognize the validity of every individual's unique subjective experience without attempting to police it or taxonomize it into something more comfortable. Or something like that. Right?
That's what the work is. And antiracism is a part of that work, antisexism is a part of that work, anticolonialism is a part of that work, etc.
But it's so interesting to me that it all comes down to Queerness vs Kyriarchy -- to Punk vs Cop, on every axis.
But it's so interesting to me that it all comes down to Queerness vs Kyriarchy -- to Punk vs Cop, on every axis.
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